Word: tapped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...greatest female tapper ever who, because of her less-than-mediocre acting, never enjoyed the popular fame her footwork deserved. On the floor, she is simply astonishing. Another inclusion oft-neglected elsewhere is the Nicholas Brothers' rubber-legged vaudeville routine from Down Argentine Way. Shirley Temple shares a charming tap duet with the original "Mr. Bojangles," influential but rarely filmed Bill Robinson...
...that we get the best compromise possible for the President or else recommend that he reject it." A Baker aide predicts a new way of doing business but the same positive results. "Baker thrived on interaction with a lot of people," he says. "Regan will rely on structure and tap other people's political skills and instincts...
...with which Beckmann invests his personages carries his painting beyond moralizing to something like magical invocation, a raising of the worst noonday ghosts of the '30s. He was certainly one of the great fabulists of modern art. But unlike the surrealists, he was not content with the effort to tap into a collective unconscious through the littered cellar of the individual self. And unlike lesser but more popular artists like Marc Chagall, he did not permit himself a moment's slump into nostalgia. Always on the move, the exile with one packed bag under the bed, gazing at a future...
...Variations to his transcriptions of Wagner, Gould did just that. Flamboyant willfulness marked too much of his work, but at his best he had a penetrating, furiously original vision. Gould died of a stroke in 1982 at age 50, but he remains a challenging figure. Now two new books tap the mind behind the fingers. In Conversations with Glenn Gould (Little, Brown, $15.95), based largely on a 1974 two-part interview in Rolling Stone, Jonathan Cott elicits from the reclusive Canadian his views on teaching ("Given half an hour of your time and your spirit and a quiet room...
...MISS FIRECRACKER CONTEST. Holly Hunter, a strumpet-elf in tap shoes, walks onstage and twirls a rifle to the Star-Spangled Banner. Neither she nor Author Beth Henley misfires in this small-town carnival of a comedy...